Frank Buffalo Hyde

Paintings

When working on a piece, I tap into the universal mind. The collective unconsciousness of the 21st century. Drawing images from advertisement, movies, television, music and politics. Expressing observation, as well as knowledge through experience.

Overlaping imagery to mimic the way the…

When working on a piece, I tap into the universal mind. The collective unconsciousness of the 21st century. Drawing images from advertisement, movies, television, music and politics. Expressing observation, as well as knowledge through experience.

Overlaping imagery to mimic the way the mind holds information: non linear and without seperation.

I don't need permission to make what I make. Never have...no artist should.  
-Frank Buffalo Hyde

Select Museum Exhibitions

2022  Imagine a world— High Desert Museum; Bend, Oregon
2022  Recent acquisitions— Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, N.Y.

2021  I- Witness Culture —The C.M. Russell Museum; Great Falls, Montana

2020  I- Witness Culture— Gilcrease Museum; Tulsa, OK

2020  Indigenous Futurism— The Museum Of Contemporary Native Art: Santa Fe, N.M.

2019  Beyond Standing Rock—The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture:Santa Fe, N.M.
2019  Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art— The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian; Santa Fe, N.M.

2016  I-Witness Culture—Lloyd Kiva New Gallery, Museum Of Indian Arts and Culture;
Santa Fe, NM

Public Collections

TiA Collection— global art collection headquartered Santa Fe, NM

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian—Washington, DC
Hood Museum of Art—Dartmouth College—Hanover, N.H.
Everson Museum of Art—Syracuse, N.Y.
Mead Art Museum—Amherst College—Amherst, MA 

Autry Museum Of the American West—Los Angeles, CA

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art—Overland Park, KS University of Nevada Reno—Reno, NV 

Gilcrease Museum—Tulsa, OK 

Crocker Art Museum—Sacramento, CA 

Peabody Essex Museum—Salem, MA 

Museum of Contemporary Native Art—Santa Fe, NM 

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture—Santa Fe, NM 

Institute of American Indian Art Campus Public Collection—Santa Fe, NM 

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian—Santa Fe, NM 

Iroquois Museum—Cobleskill, NY 

The Longyear Museum—Colgate University Hamilton, NY 

SPRINT Corporate Collection—Overland Park, KA 

Office of the Japanese Ambassador to the United States


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